Meet the insect you probably didn’t know you’re eating.
Here are 7 foods that contain the cochineal PARASITE for it’s color:
-Starbuck’s Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut, and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
-Kellogg’s Fruit Loops cereal and Fruit Snacks.
-Tropicana
-Betty Crocker’s red velvet cake mix
-Nesquik Chocolte Cookie Sandwich (Strawberry) and Nestle Wonka Nerds
-Skittles
-Dannon yogurt strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry flavors
Sidenote: It takes 40,000 of these bugs to create 1lb of carmine dye. Wowwwww!!! 😳